Local Geography
What city do we live in?
Toronto
Name the 10 provinces of Canada in order from East to West.
Newfoundland, PEI, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia
Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic
What continent is Canada in?
North America
Name the country that is partially surrounded by a great wall.
China
What lake do we get our drinking water from?
What are the three territories of Canada?
Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon
Name the 5 Great Lakes.
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Eerie, Superior
What is the largest continent in the world?
Asia
What country is the Mayan city of Chicen Itza located in?
Mexico
Name two out of the three Indigenous groups that occupied the territory that our school sits on today.
Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Wendat Nation, Mississauga's of the Anishnabee
What is the largest lake in Canada?
Lake Superior
Which ocean did European explorers traveled over to reach North America in the 1500s?
Atlantic Ocean
What is the coldest continent in the world?
Antartica
Which country would you have to go to to see gladiators fight in the Colosseum?
Rome
Our city is the location of the longest street in the world. What is the name of that street?
Yonge Street
What is the name of the mountain range in Western Canada that provided a major barrier to the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The Rocky Mountains
What body of water did the Chinese laborours travel over in order to get to North America?
Pacific Ocean
What is the hottest continent in the world?
Africa
What country is the home to the Taj Mahal: A monument of love built by an emporer for his dead wife.
Name 5 cities, other than Toronto that are part of the GTA: Greater Toronto Area?
Pickering, Vaughan, Markham, Brampton, Mississauga
The provinces in the East of Canada are known as the Atlantic Provinces. What is another name for them?
The Meritime Provinces.
Atlantic, Pacific, Antarctic/Southern, Arctic, Indian
Name all the continents of the world.
North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Antactica, Australia.
Brazil